The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1887-01-01
Muggin's Adventures.

that Will get possession OF man
when he has been drinking Il little
too much. Now there is Muggin's,
temperate and truthful man as IL
rule, but when he is a little "off''-
for he gets that way once in a while
he tells most extraordinary tales
of his adventures by land and sea
pure fabrications, all Imagination.
He imagines that he has seen every
where, met everybody and seen
everything, when the fact is that he
was born and raised in the village
where he resides and was never
more than twenty miles away from
home all his life. He has travelled
"in his mind" altogether. He quite
believes all that he is relating while
the spirit" is on, mournfully repu-
dates it all the next morning.
"Then you wasn't on Il four years
whaling voyage when boy ?" said
a man to whom he acknowledged
that his tales of the night before were
all made out of whole cloth.
"Whale nothin" said Muggins,
gloomily. 81 don't see why | need
to tell that pesky lie every time 1 get
full. The only experience l had in
whaling was when dad whaled me-"
"You said you went before the
mast"
"It was Il lie the mast went be-
fore me; long enough"
"Never heard more entertaining
story in my life" continued the
man, "than you gave me of going
around the Horn
"Well, l didn't go around any
horn while / was telling it, did II"
"You said terrible storm came
up-everybody just frightened to
death except yourself. The captain
told you to take the helm"
"Did l state where he wanted me
to take it to ?" said Muggins with
bitter sarcasm.
"The thunder rolled, the light
ming flashed"
'In the pan"
"And there stood the Horn, per-
fectly erect and over one thousand
feet high. But you got around
/ it."
"You bet | did, I would get
around anything with quart of
beer in me. But it is a lie, every
word of it. Never even saw the
sea-
"Oh, but the whales you used to
catch You welded the liveliest
harpoon in the business"
"I've hung my harpoon the will
low" sighed Muggins.
"But say, Muggins," continued
his tormentor, "there isn't any doubt
but that you fought in the Mexican
war, is there ?"
"Never fought nothin', | tell your
said Muggins, pressing his hands to
his throbbing temples.
"What Wasn't you the first man
to wade the Rio Grande, carrying
the stars and stripes high over your
head? Didn't you capture Sante
Anna single handed, receiving the
thanks Of General Taylor as you led
your prisoner into camp by the
coat collar ? You said so, you re-
mcmberm
Il suppose did," groaned Mug
gins. what a fool man will
make of himself when the wine is in
and-and the wife is out ~
"Well, Mr.. Muggins," said the
man, Il begin to doubt some of the
other statements that you made to
me last night. l seriously question
whether you gave Morse his ideas
about the magnetic telegraph, or in
vented the telephone, or suggested
the Liberty Statue to Bartholdi, or
knew Columbus in the old country.
or went up in the first balloon, or
was drunk"
Hold on" cried Muggius "if Il
said | was drunk there was one bit
of truth that l lold last night. Lets
shake ON that"
So they shook-each other and
parted.-Teras SJtiags.
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